Historical Events
- Jul 2 Horn & Hardart opens its 1st NYC "automat" (self-service restaurant)
Baseball Record
Jul 3 NY Giants pitcher Rube Marquard ties Tim Keefe's 1888 MLB record 19 game win-streak with 2-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; has 21 with 2 end-of-season in 1911
- Jul 4 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
Boxing Title Fight
Jul 4 Jack Johnson beats "Fireman" Jim Flynn by disqualification in 9 in Las Vegas to retain world heavyweight boxing title
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: English badminton champion Ethel Larcombe wins her first and only major tennis title beating Charlotte Cooper 6-3, 6-1
- Jul 6 Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
- Jul 6 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm, Sweden; events conducted prior to the ceremony dating back to 5 May
Olympic Gold
Jul 7 American athlete Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
- Jul 8 G.E.V. Crutchley playing for Oxford scores 99 not out, retires with measles v Cambridge
Sports History
Jul 8 Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 8 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Anthony Wilding makes it 3 straight Wimbledon singles crowns beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- Jul 10 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
- Jul 11 There are 6 medallists in the Stockholm Olympic pole vault; American Harry Babcock takes gold (3.95m); countrymen Frank Nelson and Marc Wright dead-heat for silver; 3-man dead-heat for bronze
- Jul 12 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US - "Queen Elizabeth" in NYC
- Jul 14 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
- Jul 15 American athlete Jim Thorpe is placed in top 4 in all 10 events, for an Olympic record 8,413 points to win the Decathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
- Jul 15 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
- Jul 16 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
- Jul 17 IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
- Jul 18 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
- Jul 19 A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town
- Jul 20 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
- Jul 22 In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea
- Jul 22 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in Stockholm, Sweden
- Jul 25 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
- Jul 28 10th Tour de France won by Odile Defraye of Belgium
- Jul 31 US government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship)
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal and President of Iraq (1968-79), born in Tikrit, Ottoman Empire (d. 1982)
- Jul 1 David Brower, American environmentalist and president (Sierra Club), born in Berkeley, California (d. 2000)
- Jul 1 Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (Vogue magazine) and manager (Lord & Taylor), born in El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma (d. 1989)
- Jul 3 Edward Jones, Northern Irish lord justice of appeals (d. 1993)
- Jul 4 Virginia Graham, American TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1998)
- Jul 4 Viviane Romance [Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns], French actress (Panic, Queen's Necklace), born in Roubaix, Nord, France (d. 1991)
- Jul 6 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and author (Seven Years in Tibet), born in Hüttenberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 2006)
- Jul 10 Francis Showering, English brewer, born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England (d. 1995)
- Jul 12 Brodrick Haldane, Scottish photographer, born in Edinburgh (d. 1996)
- Jul 12 Dioniysis Papagiannopoulos, Greek stage and screen actor, born in Diakopto, Achaea, Greece (d. 1984)
- Jul 12 Will Bradley [Wilbur Schwichtenberg], American session, jazz, and boogie-woogie trombonist and bandleader ("Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar"), born in Newton, New Jersey (d. 1989)
- Jul 14 Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
Jul 14 American folk singer-songwriter ("This Land Is Your Land"), peace activist, and father of Arlo, born in Okemah, Oklahoma
- Jul 16 Ray Barr, American pianist (Vincent Lopez Show), born in New York City (d. 1983)
- Jul 17 Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and TV host (People are Funny), born in Saskatchewan, Canada (d. 2010)
- Jul 18 Harry Levin, American literary scholar, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1994)
- Jul 18 Henry Louis Miller, American Rear Admiral (WW II-Pacific), born in Fairbanks, Alaska (d. 1993)
- Jul 18 Max Rousié, French rugby footballer, born in Marmande, Lot-et-Garonne, France (d. 1959)
- Jul 19 Norman Carr, British conservationist working in Central and Southern Africa, born in Chinde, Portuguese East Africa (d. 1997)
- Jul 20 Frederick Ferrari, English tenor and variety performer (Love Descended Like An Angel), born in Manchester, England (d. 1994)
- Jul 20 George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)
- Jul 20 John Vivian Dacie, English haematologist (discovered haemophilia B), born in London, England (d. 2005)
- Jul 23 Michael Wilding, British actor (Stage Fright, Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong), born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England (d. 1979)
- Jul 26 Fred Böhler, Swiss jazz bandleader, pianist, and early proponent of the Hammond organ, born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1995)
- Jul 27 Hilde Domin [Hilde Palm], German writer and poet, born in Cologne (d. 2006)
- Jul 27 Igor Markevitch, Russian conductor (Le Paradis Perdu), born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1983)
- Jul 27 Vernon Elliott, British bassoonist and composer, born in London (d. 1996)
- Jul 31 Bill Brown, Australian cricket batsman (22 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 206no; NSWCA, Queensland), born in Toowoomba, Australia (d. 2008)
- Jul 31 Irv Kupcinet "Kup", American TV host (Tonight! America After Dark), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2003)
Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
Jul 31 American economist (Nobel Prize Economics 1976), born in Brooklyn, New York
Famous Deaths
Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)
Jul 1 American pioneering aviator, 1st woman in the US to receive a pilot certificate and to cross the English Channel, dies in a plane crash at 37 after her biplane unexpectedly pitched forward and threw her and her passenger to their deaths [1]
- Jul 2 Tom Richardson, England cricket fast bowler (14 Tests, 88 wickets, BB 8/94; Surrey CCC), dies of a heart attack at 41
- Jul 3 Robert Hoke, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 75
- Jul 15 Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (1912 Olympics), dies of electrolyte imbalance after smearing his body with suet during Olympic marathon in Stockholm at 24
- Jul 17 Dorothy Goetz Berlin, newlywed bride of songwriter Irving Berlin, dies of typhoid fever contracted during their Havana honeymoon at 20
- Jul 17 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (Poincaré conjecture), dies at 58
- Jul 20 Andrew Lang, Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist (Andrew Lang's Fairy Books), dies at 68
- Jul 30 Emperor Meiji [Mutsuhito], 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
